herat columnist and author of the recent book the punishment of gaza and in boston we have alan dershowitz professor at harvard law school and bestselling author and another member of our cross talk team yelena hunger getting if i go to you first in tel aviv. the word bribery is being used a lot right now almost across the board and the deal is that israel to commit to another ninety day one off moratorium on settlement building in occupied the occupied west bank in jerusalem they've been given a three billion dollar military deal lots of jets there and if there were any kind of resolution coming from the world at large wanting to recognize the palestinian state. beyond these negotiations and netanyahu and his government who are still thinking about it maybe maybe looking for more of a deal i mean how weak is the united states in and pushing its strong ally in the middle east to commit to the peace process because there is a lot of depression about the process right now go ahead. i'm not sure that the united states is so weak i think the united states or the administration is footing itsel

i started to read your book mr dershowitz. i then came to chapter one footnotes ten foot no the left and footnote twelve footnote thirteen footnote fourteen footnote fifteen footnotes sixteen all of the quotes are from joan peters may or so from joan peters but you have a long quote here from mark twain and pages twenty three to twenty four i turned to joan peters page one fifty nine to sixty the identical quote from twain with with the ellipse ease is in the. is the twain quote romance the a lip is the weight letter a financer of it at the key of the ellipse sees in the same places the identical quote from twain with the ellipses and the same places it's been widely then read here really has stood mr dershowitz i don't what's your point is if that is a correct let us finish netters i would make i want to ask you guys have is it a direct is it an accurate quote of twain that there is very clear it will never play ger is a quote marked exactly x x not except that you cite mark twain and not shown peters i'm a professor sir i kn

yeah yeah a professor dershowitz will of recently to become israel's say ambassador to the u.n. and i think it's a great loss for the israeli propaganda the professor the refuse this offer because i really think that israel could have used such. propaganda but let's get back to the fake the fake that mr netanyahu is not even ready to do the million little million men that mean it when necessary step of resigning the settlements a man who speaks about a two state solution this is only empty words when the first indication this is really right gentlemen i want to jump in here we're going to wear short break and we'll come back to you after a short break and we'll continue our discussion on u.s. policy in the middle east stay with our. wealthy british science. sometimes. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on r g. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead as. a beach front field several kilometers long. and now there is o

we're talking to professor alan dershowitz he's author of a new book it's called the case for israel intimate with norman finkelstein among his books the holocaust industry and n.h. and reality and the israel palestine conflict now one thousand nine hundred eighty four one joan peters published a book called from time immemorial the book was universally recognized by serious scholars to be a fraught without wanting to toot my own horn i'm largely recognized as the person who exposed the for what. i know that book inside out i read it at least four times and i went through all eighteen hundred and fifty four footnotes i started to read your book mr dershowitz. i then came to chapter one footnotes ten foot no the left and footnote twelve footnote thirteen footnote fourteen footnote fifteen footnotes sixteen all of the quotes are from joan peters they are so from joan peters but you have a long quote here from mark twain pages twenty three to twenty four i turned to joan peters page one fifty nine to sixty the identical quote from twain with with the ellipse ease is in the you know that

he began in a democracy now radio program several years ago when he alleged that dershowitz his book a case for israel was plagiarized more recently dershowitz is not one campaign against illegal themes can you get all the president of all university has to about the middle of this month to the side of that was dr finkelstein he's a bastard to paul university who might get his tenure on tuesday if the university allow. but how can people like this be teaching our children in the class first thanks for joining us i've got to start as well so where things stand on your a ten year at. university and you become too hot for american academia the american association of university professors has been watching. the demise of the american higher education of the ministrations. you know how to get rid of my memory. and you. being. me. i think. now i think. now my. way. things. the flow university and myself reach a settlement this is the whole universe the state. today we are free to the resolution of our dispute with professor finkelstein. as a part of that resolution he has agreed to design

today a debate and a new book called the case for israel it's by alan dershowitz who is one of the nation's foremost appellate lawyers felix frankfurter professor of law at harvard law school and why don't we start with you laying out the thesis of your latest book the case for israel well i want to write a progressive liberal case for the two state solution which i think that most israelis favor and have favored for a long time i argue in the book that no country in history faced with comparable threats both external and internal has ever tried so hard to comply with the rule of law i compare israel favorably to the united states in this regard norman finkelstein your response i was asked to comment in the sky whose new book i went home purchased one copy in fact i purchased two copies i read the book very carefully i did with what someone serious does. with the book. i read the text i went through the footnotes and went through it very carefully there's only one conclusion one can reach having read the book and this is a scholarly judgment it's not an ad hominum attack mr dershowitz has c